shaxper
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Post by shaxper on Mar 22, 2017 8:03:00 GMT -5
In response to a lot of feedback from the community, we began pushing more featured events over the past six months, effectively having an event running every month. While many said this was what they wanted, the end result has been less participation in each event, even including The Classic Comics Christmas. Seems like we've overdone it and created a lot of white noise, whereas these events should stand out and feel special.
So we're recalibrating, playing up the most popular of these events and letting the rest go. This would mean dropping such low-participation events as Long Halloween, Groundhogs' Month, and Graphic Novel Quest / Read A Graphic Novel Week, and instead going to the following event schedule:
December: Classic Comics Christmas
April: The Jamie Awards
August: Top 100 lists (beginning with the long re-requested Top 100 Comic Book Sagas)
Essentially, one big event every four months.
Thoughts? Suggestions?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2017 8:35:38 GMT -5
I think you are right on the nose and I prefer that you get rid of the TOP 100 LISTS and replace it with the HALLOWEEN event instead. I think it would be more participation if you have the Halloween and the Classic Comics Christmas and focus on those two and the Jamie Awards 3rd. I would move the Jamie Awards to May, the Halloween starts in September and ending on Halloween and the Classic Comics Christmas remains intact.
I just can't participate the 100 lists because it's very difficult thing for me to do. I can do the Halloween if it was more structured and better organized.
That's my suggestions Shax.
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Post by shaxper on Mar 22, 2017 9:03:29 GMT -5
I think you are right on the nose and I prefer that you get rid of the TOP 100 LISTS and replace it with the HALLOWEEN event instead. The decision is based upon the facts that 1) The Long Halloween has always had low participation, and 2) There's been a lot of interest in resurrecting the Top 100 Comic Book Sagas. Believe me, it's more work for me, but I believe in giving people what they want. The Jamie Awards is always scheduled to align with the anniversary of the site's launching. That way, we are measuring full years of the site's existence when we vote for best posts and posters of the year. There have been some great suggestions made in the past on how to make this event easier to participate in. I'll be looking through them and giving the entire thing a great deal of consideration. One factor that will help is, with more participation, we can probably build a list of 100 even if participating members are only asked to provide a top 20. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2017 10:38:26 GMT -5
Understood your points and your idea of the 100 Lists needs to be tweaked so that it will be easier for all of us to participate in. Regarding the Jamie Awards, I did not know that the Month of April that was important to you and the original members of this forum.
That's all I have for now.
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Post by shaxper on Mar 22, 2017 10:42:32 GMT -5
Regarding the Jamie Awards, I did not know that the Month of April that was important to you and the original members of this forum. Less a matter of importance and more an issue of pragmatics. A "year" should either be measured as beginning on January 1st or on the date the CCF went live. We've opted for the latter here. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2017 10:46:29 GMT -5
Regarding the Jamie Awards, I did not know that the Month of April that was important to you and the original members of this forum. Less a matter of importance and more an issue of pragmatics. A "year" should either be measured as beginning on January 1st or on the date the CCF went live. We've opted for the latter here. No problems Shax. |
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Post by Confessor on Mar 24, 2017 1:34:29 GMT -5
Just being totally honest about it, the only event I'm interested in is the Classic Comics Christmas. I did partake in the Long Halloween event last year, but I probably wouldn't do so again. It was fine for what it was, but it doesn't have the same sense of occasion as the Xmas one for me personally. I also agree that we're probably having too many events and that's why participation overall is low.I think if you want bigger numbers participating four events a year is probably your absolute limit -- 2 a year would be even better. Just my tupence worth, you understand.  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2017 2:02:49 GMT -5
You'd have to pry the 12 Days of Christmas from my cold dead hands, as long as Kurt wants to run it, I'm there, but as much as I like some of the other events, I would be ok if they didn't take place, or were simply just another thread in the appropriate section at the relevant time (a horror thread in October, a GN thread in March for example) that people could participate in if they choose without being billed as an event and shunted off to a special section. Let the thread live or die organically if someone starts it, not parcel it off to special section that many may not even navigate to to see what it's about.
I think participation is down because there are too many events and the site is too compartmentalized-too many sections competing with each other for attention and most people don't have enough time to check them all out so pick and choose what sections they check out. But we've had the fragmentation pros and cons discussion before too and it's not a can of worms I particularly want to open again-I know the way I navigate the boards is to use the Proboards dashboard page which lets me know which threads in all my proboards sites have activity in threads I have participated in, lets me know if someone has messaged me or if I have notifications, and if a thread I have bookmarked has been posted in. If none of those occur, I may then go to the site to see what's new, but if any of those have occurred I probably am not going to have time to scan through more than 1 section to look for new threads of interest, unless I am looking for something specific like comments on a new super-hero movie or tv show, a new cover contest or what not.
The board is getting bigger but participation is getting more dispersed as a result. It's a natural progression. The more things to take people's time and attention, the less attention each will get.
-M
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